 Springfield Armory M1911A1 single-action .45 ACP semi-automatic pistol A Semi-automatic (also known as self-loading) pistol is a type of handgun that can be fired in semi-automatic mode, firing one cartridge for each trigger pull until running out of stored ammunition. This type of firearm uses a single chamber and a single barrel which remain in a fixed linear orientation relative to each other while being fired and reloaded semi-automatically. Image File history File links Springfield_Armory_M1911A1. ...
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Walther P99, a semiautomatic pistol from the late 1990s A semi-automatic firearm is a gun that requires only a trigger pull for each round that is fired, unlike a single-action revolver, a pump-action firearm, a bolt-action firearm, or a lever-action firearm, which require the shooter...
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Overview
A semi-automatic pistol works by automatically extracting and ejecting a fired cartridge from the chamber, and then loading an unfired cartridge from a magazine into the chamber to be ready for the next trigger pull. This cycle is powered by using the energy of the explosive discharge of each cartridge that is fired. A 30-round STANAG magazine. ...
Most types of semi-automatic pistols rely on a removable magazine to store unfired cartridges, and it is from this magazine that new ammunition is supplied to reload the chamber upon firing the gun. The removable magazine is typically located inside a hollow hand grip, and is usually removed for reloading with fresh cartridges. Typically, the first round is manually loaded into the chamber by pulling back and releasing ("racking") the slide mechanism, after which recoil operation of the handgun when fired automatically extracts, ejects, and reloads the chamber until all rounds are fired. This mode of operation generally allows for faster reloading and a larger number of stored cartridges being available, in contrast to a revolver, but at the cost of a more complex design and mechanism that is potentially more prone to malfunctioning than a revolver. Recoil operation is a type of locked-breech firearm actions used in automatic firearms. ...
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Many modern semi-automatic pistols are double action only (DAO); that is, once a round is chambered, each trigger pull will both arm the hammer, striker, or firing pin, and will additionally release the same to fire a cartridge in one continuous motion. Each squeeze of the trigger on a DAO semi-automatic pistol remains uniformly consistent in terms of force required. The Kel-Tec P-32 is an example of this style of action. Normal carry mode for DAO semi-automatic pistols is with the magazine full and a round chambered, with the gun holstered and usually without safety on, or, for those few pistols that do have a safety, with the safety off. DAO semi-automatic pistols are most generally recommended only in the smaller, self-defense, concealment-type pistols, rather than in target or hunting pistols. A US Army 45 Colt. ...
The Kel-Tec P-32 is a compact self-loading, or semi-automatic, locked-breech pistol that is extremely popular as a deep concealment weapon among civilians licensed to carry concealed firearms in the US. [1] It is believed to have been designed almost entirely by George Kelgren, the innovative...
Many other modern semi-automatic pistols are double action (DA), also sometimes known as double-action/single-action (DA/SA.) In this design the hammer, striker, or firing pin may either be manually pre-cocked or automatically cocked by the first trigger pull when starting to fire. The hammer, striker, or firing pin will be recocked fully by each subsequent firing of the pistol. Double-action (DA) pistols have an inconsistent trigger pull if the hammer is cocked automatically by the first trigger pull. The first pull requires roughly twice as much force as subsequent firings from a pre-cocked condition. To learn to fire such DA semi-automatic pistols accurately often requires slightly more training to master the trigger mechanism fully than for DAO pistols, since there are two trigger states to master. The Beretta 92F/FS, a full-sized, service, semi-automatic pistol is an example of this style of action. A common carry mode for DA semi-automatic pistols is with the magazine full, a round chambered, and the gun holstered and uncocked with the external safety unengaged or off. An alternative carry mode, and the mode often used after firing just one or two cartridges, is with the magazine partially full, a round chambered, and the gun holstered, and cocked with the external safety engaged or on. A US Army 45 Colt. ...
The Beretta 92SB-F (later renamed Beretta 92F), Beretta 92FS, Beretta 92G, and Beretta 92FS Inox are a series of semi-automatic, locked-breech delayed recoil operated, double/single action pistols, chambered for the 9 mm Parabellum cartridge, designed and manufactured by Beretta. ...
In contrast, a single-action (SA), semi-automatic pistol must be cocked by pulling back on an exposed hammer to fire the first shot by pulling the trigger. This too requires additional training to achieve reliable operation in a tense self-defense situation, and remembering to cock the pistol even when a round is chambered before squeezing the trigger. The famed Colt M1911 is an example of this style of action. All SA semi-automatic pistols exhibit this feature, and automatically cock the hammer when the slide is first racked to chamber a round. The normal, defensively ready carry mode for such SA semi-automatic pistols is usually in Condition 1, popularly known as cocked and locked (see photo of Springfield Armory M1911A1 above). Condition 1 (a term popularized by Colonel Jeff Cooper) refers to having the magazine full, a round chambered, the hammer fully cocked, and the thumb safety engaged or on, at least for right-handed users. For many single-action, semi-automatic pistols, this procedure works well only for right-handed users, as the thumb safety is located on the left side of pistol and is easily accessible only for those who are holding the pistol in the right hand. A US Army 45 Colt. ...
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There is also technically a half-cocked position on many SA semi-automatic pistols. Squeezing the trigger will not fire the gun when it is in the half-cocked position, and neither will dropping the gun in this state cause an accidental discharge. During WWII in the Pacific Theater, an unofficial and unapproved carry mode for the SA M1911 by left-handed US soldiers in combat was carrying the gun with the magazine full, a round chambered, the action in half-cocked position, and the thumb safety (accessible only to right-handed users) positioned in the off (or ready-to-fire) mode. The primary advantage of the half-cocked position versus the uncocked position in that particular scenario was added sound suppression, a secondary advantage being the avoidance of accidental discharges if the gun were accidentally dropped. Cocking the gun from uncocked to fully cocked was much noisier than turning the safety off for right-handed users, or cocking the gun from half cocked to fully cocked for left-handed users. In general, however, single-action, semi-automatic pistols should never be carried cocked with the safety off. Many modern SA semi-automatic pistols have had their safety mechanisms redesigned to provide a thumb safety on both sides of the pistol, thereby better meeting the needs of left-handed as well as right-handed users.
There also have been notable semi-automatic pistol designs with different traits than those generically described here, including those with a magazine fed with a stripper clip, and those with non-removable (sometimes called blind-box) magazines. These designs are rarely used in modern semi-automatic pistols. The famed Model C96, or "broomhandle Mauser," in its usual configuration had a non-removable magazine, which in contrast to most modern designs was not inserted into a hollowed-out grip and is an example of a non-removable magazine in a semi-automatic pistol. A stripper clip or charger, not to be confused with the revolver clip or plain clip, is a speedloader that holds several cartridges together in a single unit for easier loading of a firearms magazine. ...
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Semi-automatic pistols utilize but one firing chamber that remains fixed in a constant linear position relative to the gun barrel. In contrast, although double-action revolvers can also be fired semi-automatically, their rounds are not fired from a single chamber, but rather are fired from each of 4 to 10 chambers, with 6 chambers typically being the most common, that are rotated into linear alignment with the barrel's position in turn just prior for each shot fired. A US Army 45 Colt. ...
The language surrounding automatic, semi-automatic, self-loading, etc., often causes confusion due to differences in technical usage between different countries and differences in popular usage even within a country. For example, an automatic pistol technically refers to a machine pistol, although in popular American usage it is also used as a synonym for a semi-automatic pistol. In the case of pistols, an 'automatic pistol', a 'semi-automatic pistol', or a 'self-loading pistol', all usually imply a handgun that is semi-automatic, self-loading, and magazine-fed with a magazine that is removable, producing one shot fired for each trigger pull. If the term handgun is exchanged for pistol, then these terms can mean entirely different types of firearms than discussed in this article. A machine pistol shares several properties of the semi-automatic handgun and the sub-machine gun. ...
Technology A self-loading pistol reloads the chamber with a new round automatically each time the weapon is fired, without additional action being required by the user. For a semi-automatic pistol, this is typically accomplished by recoil operation. (For a machine pistol, in contrast, this can be accomplished by recoil operation, or, less commonly, by siphoning off some of the gases created when the gun fires. Nonetheless, absolutes are rarely always true; for example, see Desert Eagle for an example of a semi-automatic pistol that does siphon off some of the gases instead of relying on short recoil operation. See Gas-Operated article for details on gas operation of firearms. Recoil operation is a type of locked-breech firearm actions used in automatic firearms. ...
A machine pistol shares several properties of the semi-automatic handgun and the sub-machine gun. ...
Recoil operation is a type of locked-breech firearm actions used in automatic firearms. ...
The Desert Eagle is a large calibre gas-operated semi-automatic pistol manufactured in Israel by IMI (Israel Military Industries) for Magnum Research, Inc. ...
The gas-operated system for implementing automatic reloading of a firearm is one of five such systems, the others being recoil-operated, gatling, chain, and blowback. ...
A semi-automatic pistol will fire only one shot per trigger pull, in contrast to a "fully automatic" or machine pistol which continues to fire as long as the trigger is held or until all rounds have been fired.
While both types of weapons operate on the same principles, fully automatic weapons must be built more ruggedly to accommodate the heat and shock caused by rapid firing, and it can be difficult (and illegal) to convert a semi-automatic pistol into a fully automatic mode of fire. A selective fire action pistol, though, can be converted back and forth with a simple flick of a switch, and often includes burst mode. Selective fire weapons are generally not available to civilians except (in the US) for those civilians holding a Class III Federal firearms license. A selective fire weapon can be fired in either of at least two modes, depending on the position of the selector switch. ...
In automatic firearms, burst mode or burst fire is a firing mode enabling the shooter to fire a predetermined number of rounds (usually 2, 3 or 4) at a time with a single pull of the trigger—this firing mode is commonly used in submachine guns, assault rifles and carbines. ...
Actions, blowback vs. locked breech Self-loading automatic pistols can be divided into "blowback" and "locked breech" categories according to their principle of operation. This classification roughly divides the operation into those specifically suitable for small-caliber versus large-caliber semi-automatic pistols.
In blowback semi-automatic pistols, typically .380 caliber (sometimes known as 9 mm Kurz, i.e., 9mm Short) or smaller, the barrel is fixed to the frame and the slide or bolt, in its foremost position, is held against the barrel only by the force of the recoil spring. The slide starts to move backwards immediately upon the gun's being fired, as there is no locking action to hold the breechblock and slide locked with the barrel, even temporarily. At the appropriate point in the rearward motion, extraction and ejection of the fired brass of the cartridge are accomplished, and the used brass is typically ejected to the right of the pistol. During the motion rearwards, the striker, hammer, or firing pin may be re-cocked. A spring, called a recoil spring, slows the movement of the slide as it is compressed. When the slide reaches the rear of its travel, the recoil spring is fully compressed (if not, the pistol may suffer a failure, called a "jam"). The slide begins to move forward under the force of the spring, stripping a new cartridge from the magazine and pushing the new cartridge into the chamber. Upon the slide's return to its fully forward position, the pistol is ready once more to be fired by squeezing the trigger. The mass of the slide must be sufficient to hold the breech closed until the bullet exits the barrel, and the remaining pressure drops to a safe level. A cartridge with too high a pressure, or a slide with too little mass can cause the cartridge case to extract too early, causing a case rupture. An early naval cannon design, allowing the gun to roll backwards a small distance when firing The recoil when firing a gun is the backward momentum of a gun, which is equal to the forward momentum of the bullet or shell, due to conservation of momentum. ...
In contrast, in a locked-breech design (typically .32 caliber or larger) the barrel is temporarily locked to the slide. The most common locked-breech type is the short-recoil design. In a short-recoil pistol, the slide and barrel recoil together a short distance while locked together, until the cartridge-firing chamber pressure has dropped to a safe level. After sufficient travel to allow the bullet to exit and the pressure to drop, the barrel then unlocks from the slide, and the barrel's rearward motion is stopped. The ejection and loading of the new cartridge are similar to that in a blowback pistol. After the slide seats the new round into the chamber, the barrel begins to move forward with the slide, locking into place, at which point the cycle is complete. Recoil operation is a type of locked-breech firearm actions used in automatic firearms. ...
Some cartridges, such as the .44 Magnum, are so powerful that the spring required to slow the recoiling barrel and slide becomes very difficult to compress by hand, making it very difficult for most people to load the pistol. Magnum cartridges are often found chambered in pistols that use a gas-operated design, more commonly found in a rifle. One example of a gas-operated pistol is the Desert Eagle. .44 Magnum Colt Anaconda The . ...
The gas-actuated system for implementing automatic reloading of a firearm is one of three such systems, the others being recoil-actuated and blowback. ...
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The Desert Eagle is a large calibre gas-operated semi-automatic pistol manufactured in Israel by IMI (Israel Military Industries) for Magnum Research, Inc. ...
Blowback pistols are simpler to make and thus cheaper, but the blowback mechanism can practically be used only with low-pressure cartridges of relatively low power, typically .380 ACP caliber or smaller. With caliber 9 x 19 mm or larger, the slide mass starts to become excessive, and therefore few blowback handguns in such calibers exist; the primary exceptions are simple, inexpensive guns such as those made by Hi-Point Firearms, and semi-automatic versions of blowback submachine guns. Yugoslavian 9 mm Kratak (9 mm Short) cartridges, FMJ. The . ...
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In contrast, locked-breech mechanisms are used for some .32, .380 pistols; most 9 mm pistols; and nearly all pistols of .40, .45, and larger calibers. This keeps the mass of the slide lower, and the overall size of the pistol more manageable.
Trigger mechanisms, double vs. single action Another differing point among semi-automatic pistols are their trigger and ignition systems. Early designs used so-called "single-action" mechanisms whereby a hammer had to be manually cocked to fire the first shot (though for subsequent shots the hammer was cocked by the energy associated with the recoil from the preceding shot). This was usually somewhat mitigated, however, as racking the slide to chamber the first round would initially cock the hammer. Then, when the trigger was pulled, the hammer would hit the firing pin which would then strike the primer of the round in the chamber and fire the pistol, and subsequently the semi-automatic extraction, ejection, and re-loading functions as well as subsequent cocking of the hammer would be performed without any action on the part of the user. For carry, a round would be chambered, and the hammer would simply be blocked in its cocked position with a manual safety. These early designs could not prevent the pistol from firing if dropped on a hard surface on the muzzle of the barrel, as the firing pin was only held in place by a spring. There was also a (very rare) risk that such a pistol would fire in fully automatic mode if the spring retaining the firing pin become too weak with use or age. In that case, the pistol would start firing upon squeezing the trigger, and would only stop firing when out of ammunition, posing a great risk for its user. There was also a rare risk that a slam-fire could occur, when chambering a round to load the gun if the firing pin spring was weak, such that simply loading the gun could cause it to accidentally discharge. This article does not cite its references or sources. ...
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Later designs introduced "double action" mechanisms, which eliminated the need to cock the hammer manually first to fire the pistol. Instead, the hammer was cocked as the trigger was initially pulled. This first trigger pull in double-action mode (uncocked hammer) was heavier than when in single-action mode. After the first shot, the pistol reverted to single-action mode because the rearward motion of the slide (which cycles the pistol) would also cock the hammer for the next round; the trigger pull weight in single-action mode is usually half of what it is in double-action mode. If the particular pistol has a manual safety, when it is engaged it will usually (depending on the design) de-cock the hammer and return the semi-automatic pistol to double-action mode. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1280x960, 115 KB) Authors own picture. ...
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There are also "double action only" mechanism designs in which there is no single-action mode, as the hammer, firing pin, or striker cannot stay in a cocked position. In most double-action-only designs, the trigger is disconnected while the hammer block safety is applied. Note that some double-action pistols lack the firing pin safety, and some even lack any external manual safety, depending instead on a combination of the double-action-only mechanism with an internal hammerblock mechanism to prevent the firing pin from hitting the chambered cartridge in the event of accidentally dropping the gun on its muzzle. Such designs can be safely carried with a full magazine, and with a round in the chamber, and still remain safe even if accidentally dropped onto the muzzle. In many ways, such double-action-only mechanism semi-automatic pistols function for carry much like a revolver, which typically is loaded in only 5 cylinders out of 6, with the hammer down on an empty cylinder to prevent an accidental discharge if dropped.
Some double-action-only mechanism designs are sometimes also called "safe action" or "semi-double action" mechanism designs, implying there is no hammer, and when one pulls the trigger one fully cocks the striker or firing pin until it releases and fires the pistol, all in one rather long trigger pull. When the trigger is in ready-to-fire position, the striker is blocked so that the semi-automatic pistol cannot fire if dropped.
History
 A Mauser C96 Broom-handle Semi-automatic Pistol being re-loaded
 A 1945-produced US M1911A1 U.S. Army Colt (.45 ACP and .32 ACP cartridges shown for size comparison)
 A Browning 9 mm Hi-Power semi-automatic pistol
 M1900 American Eagle commercial re-creation of Georg Luger's Pistole Parabellum design
 Beretta 92FS (current US Military/NATO 9 mm sidearm) After Hiram Maxim introduced his recoil-powered machine gun in 1883, several gunsmiths set out to apply the same principles to handguns, including Maxim. Maxim's designs for smaller firearms using his recoil-powered ideas never went into production. This image is the property of http://www. ...
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Hiram S. Maxim Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim (February 4, 1840 - November 24, 1916) was the inventor of the Maxim Gun in 1884, the first portable, fully automatic machine gun. ...
A machine gun is a fully-automatic firearm that is capable of firing bullets in rapid succession. ...
In the 1880s, other designers worked on self-loading designs. The first model to gain any commercial success was the Hugo Borchardt designed self-loading Borchardt C-93 semi-automatic pistol, which was designed in 1893 and made its public appearance in 1894. Borchardt invented the C-93 mechanism, but it was based in large part upon Maxim's toggle-lock principle. The C-93 featured a clever locking mechanism modelled after the human knee joint in which the mechanical joint is called a knee, or in German Kniegelenk (knee joint). The C-93 proved mechanically reliable, but was too large and bulky to receive widespread acceptance. Equipped with a screw-on wooden stock, the C-93 served well in small pistol carbines, however. Borchardt also developed the 7.65 x 25 mm Borchardt cartridge, around which the C-93 was built. Hugo Borchardt (June 6, 1844-May 8, 1924) was a firearms inventor and engineer, born in Magdeburg, Germany. ...
Borchardt C-93 Borchardt C-93 in its holster The Borchardt C-93 pistol was designed by Hugo Borchardt in 1893. ...
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In 1896, Paul Mauser introduced his first model of the famous Mauser broom-handle semi-automatic pistol, the C96. Using the powerful 7.63 mm bottle-necked cartridge originally designed by Borchardt, the Mauser was the first self-loading pistol used extensively on battlefields, as in the South African War of 1899-1902. These semi-automatic pistols were usually made in 7.63 x 25 mm Mauser, but many were also eventually made in 9 x 19 mm Parabellum (9mm Luger) and a small number in .45 ACP. Paul von Meisner, born June 27, 1838 in Oberndorf am Neckar, died May 29, 1914 in Oberndorf am Neckar, was a German industrialist and weapon designer. ...
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In the United States in 1896, the first American gun designer to develop self-loading semi-automatic pistols was John Browning, whose models were manufactured by Colt in the US, and by the Belgian firm of Fabrique Nationale (FN) in Europe. Like Luger's work conducted around the same time in Germany, Browning's first successful design was in 7.65 mm caliber, the Browning M1900, although Browning designed a slightly different 7.65 mm Browning (.32 Auto, 7.65x17mm SR) cartridge for his .32 caliber semi-automatic pistol that was different from Luger's 7.65 mm Luger (.30 Luger, 7.65 x 21 mm) cartridge. Browning also designed .25 ACP, .380 ACP, and .45 ACP cartridges in addition to .32 ACP cartridges for his semi-automatic pistol designs. He also designed the locked-breech action now commonly used by nearly all heavy-caliber semi-automatic pistols, and designed the .45 ACP Colt M1911 single-action semi-automatic pistol, which was adopted by the US military in 1911 (hence the Model 1911 designation) and which remained in service for over 70 years. The Model 1911 is still in active use with some US Special Forces and Marine Corps units. John Moses Browning (January 21, 1855 – November 26, 1926), born in Ogden, Utah, was an American firearms designer who developed myriad varieties of weapons, cartridges, and gun mechanics, many of which are used in the U.S. military and elsewhere to this day. ...
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ACP (Automatic Colt Pistol) is the acronym chosen by Colt to denote its involvement in the design of several pistol cartridges. ...
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Browning also co-designed the FN Browning Hi-Power, announced in 1922, during the last years of his life, working on this design until his death in 1926. It was a 9 mm Parabellum semi-automatic pistol and was the first high-capacity, semi-automatic pistol design to feature a double column magazine capable of holding 13 rounds (plus one chambered) in place of the single column magazine that Browning had favored in designing the earlier .45 ACP Colt M1911. (The earlier, single-column magazine design is still used to today, however, especially for deep-concealment semi-automatic pistols such as the Kel-Tec P-32.) Browning Hi-Power The Browning Hi-Power is based on a semi-automatic 9 mm pistol conceived and patented in the United States in 1922 by American firearms inventor John Browning, who eventually took his ideas to Belgium and the arms manufacturer Fabrique Nationale de Herstal. ...
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A double column magazine (sometimes also referred to as double stack) is a firearms ammunition storage device or magazine in which cartridges are stored in two side by side stacks, offset by one half cartridge height and resting against one another. ...
In a single column magazine, the rounds are stacked one on top of the other. ...
The M1911 is a single-action, semiautomatic handgun chambered for the . ...
The Kel-Tec P-32 is a compact self-loading, or semi-automatic, locked-breech pistol that is extremely popular as a deep concealment weapon among civilians licensed to carry concealed firearms in the US. [1] It is believed to have been designed almost entirely by George Kelgren, the innovative...
The next notable design was the 7.65 mm Luger by Georg Luger, which although successful in its function, nonetheless failed to have adequate stopping power and failed to win widespread acceptance. In 1902, Georg Luger's subsequent and similar 9 mm Luger Parabellum (9 x 19 mm) Pistole Parabellum design overcame the problem of inadequate stopping power and featured a greatly improved Borchardt-type Knieglelenk ("knee-joint") locking mechanism. Unlike Browning's locked-breech design, the barrel in a Knieglelenk design does not tip up and down while the gun is fired, thereby theoretically improving shooting accuracy. Luger's 9mm Pistole Parabellum design was adopted by the German military and served as their standard sidearm during World War I. During World War II, Germany was the first nation to adopt a double-action pistol, the Walther P38 which could be carried loaded (with a cartridge chambered) and ready to fire without the risk of an accidental discharge if dropped. The P38 likewise used Luger's 9 mm Parabellum (9mm Luger) cartridge that, despite reaching its centennial in 2002, is still the most widely used pistol cartridge in the world, widely popular among military, police, and civilian users. The 7. ...
Georg Luger, 1906 Georg Johann Luger (born March 6, 1849 in Steinach am Brenner, Austria - died December 22, 1923) was an Austrian designer of the famous Luger pistol. ...
Georg Luger, 1906 Georg Johann Luger (born March 6, 1849 in Steinach am Brenner, Austria - died December 22, 1923) was an Austrian designer of the famous Luger pistol. ...
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The Parabellum-Pistole (Pistol Parabellum), popularly known as the Luger pistol is a semi-automatic self-loading pistol patented by Georg Luger in 1898 and manufactured by Deutsche Waffen- und Munitionsfabriken (DWM) starting in 1900. ...
Borchardt C-93 Borchardt C-93 in its holster The Borchardt C-93 pistol was designed by Hugo Borchardt in 1893. ...
The Parabellum-Pistole (Pistol Parabellum), popularly known as the Luger pistol is a semi-automatic self-loading pistol patented by Georg Luger in 1898 and manufactured by Deutsche Waffen- und Munitionsfabriken (DWM) starting in 1900. ...
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During World War II, the only major powers to still use military revolvers as sidearms were Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States. Though the British firm of Webley and Scott had developed several adequate self-loading pistols, one of which was adopted by the British Police in 1911 and by the Royal Navy and Royal Marines before the First World War, their trusty revolvers were generally preferred by most British military. In the Soviet Union, Nagant M1895 revolvers remained the primary handgun because of a lack of semi-automatic pistols. In the United States, though, the Colt M1911A1 semi-automatic single-action pistol was most widely used. Both Colt and Smith & Wesson produced revolvers chambered for the same .45 ACP pistol ammunition used in the M1911A1, because of the great demand for handguns and the need to adopt a common cartridge for use among semi-automatic pistols and revolvers. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...
The famous Webley Mk VI, standard sidearm of the British Army 1915-1932 Webley and Scott is an arms manufacturer based in Birmingham, England. ...
The British police are a group of similar but independent police services which operate in the United Kingdom. ...
The armed forces of the United Kingdom are known as the British Armed Forces or Her Majestys Armed Forces, officially the Armed Forces of the Crown. ...
The Nagant M1895 Revolver was designed and produced by a Belgian industrialist, Léon Nagant. ...
The M1911 is a single-action, semiautomatic handgun chambered for the . ...
Rampant Colt - The original logo of Colts Firearms Colts Manufacturing Company was founded in Hartford, Connecticut in 1847 by Samuel Colt in order to produce revolvers, which Colt held the patent on, during the Mexican-American War. ...
Smith & Wesson NASDAQ: SWHC are the largest manufacturers of handguns in the United States. ...
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The M1911 is a single-action, semiautomatic handgun chambered for the . ...
After World War II, most nations eventually adopted 9mm Luger (9mm Parabellum) caliber pistols employing Browning's locked-breech design for their standard-issue military pistols. The most popular early choice was the previously mentioned FN Browning Hi-Power, which was the first high-capacity pistol; another popular model was the locked-breech Walther P38 because of its many modern safety features. The current U.S. military choice is a variant of the Beretta 92F/FS. Browning Hi-Power The Browning Hi-Power is based on a semi-automatic 9 mm pistol conceived and patented in the United States in 1922 by American firearms inventor John Browning, who eventually took his ideas to Belgium and the arms manufacturer Fabrique Nationale de Herstal. ...
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Walther P38 The Walther P38 is a 9 mm pistol that was issued to NCOs and officers of the Wehrmacht near the end of World War II. It replaced the costly Luger P08. ...
The Beretta 92SB-F (later renamed Beretta 92F), Beretta 92FS, Beretta 92G, and Beretta 92FS Inox are a series of semi-automatic, locked-breech delayed recoil operated, double/single action pistols, chambered for the 9 mm Parabellum cartridge, designed and manufactured by Beretta. ...
In 1971, Smith & Wesson was the first company to offer a safe double-action, high-capacity pistol with its Model 59. CZ launched its CZ-75 in 1975. Beretta introduced its Beretta 92 in 1976. Glock introduced the ultra-modern Glock 17 in 1982, and SIG-Sauer introduced its model SIG P226 in 1983. In the early 90s, Heckler & Koch combined what they thought were the most desirable attributes of semi-autos in their pistol, the HK USP. In 1995, Kel-Tec introduced their first compact 9mm Parabellum pistol, the Kel-Tec P11, designed for concealed carry. In 1999, Kel-Tec introduced their extremely popular .32 ACP P-32 for deeply concealed carry. Both of the Kel-Tec pistols are double-action-only (DAO) designs. The Smith & Wesson Model 59 was a modification of the S&W Model 39 pistol that had a double-column magazine. ...
CZUB logo on ČZ 75B grips Česká zbrojovka a. ...
The CZ 75 is a semi-automatic handgun made in the Czech Republic and originally introduced in 1975 by Česká zbrojovka Uherský Brod (CZUB) in caliber 9 mm Parabellum. ...
The Beretta 92 (also Beretta 96 and Beretta 98) is a series of semi-automatic pistols designed and manufactured by Beretta of Italy. ...
Glock is an Austrian defense contractor (named after the founder Gaston Glock) founded in 1963 in Deutsch-Wagram, near Vienna, Austria. ...
The Glock 17 was the first pistol designed and manufactured by the Austrian company Glock. ...
SIGARMS is the US representative of Swiss manufacturing firm Swiss Arms AG, which was split off of Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft (SIG) in 2000. ...
The Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft (SIG)-Sauer P226 is a full-sized, service type pistol originally chambered for 9 mm Luger. ...
Heckler & Koch G41 Heckler & Koch GmbH (H&K) (pronounced //) is a German weapons manufacturing company famous for various series of small firearms, notably the MP5 submachine gun, the MP7 personal defense weapon, USP series handguns, high-precision PSG1 sniper rifle, and the G3 and G36 assault rifles. ...
USP family The Heckler und Koch USP (German universelle selbstladende Pistole, universal self-loading pistol) is a pistol designed by the German arms manufacturer Heckler und Koch. ...
Kel-Tec CNC Industries Inc. ...
The Kel-Tec P11 is a compact self-loading, or semi-automatic, locked-breech pistol chambered for 9mm Luger ammunition that is popular as a concealed weapon among civilians licensed to carry concealed firearms in the US. It is believed to have been designed almost entirely by George Kelgren, the...
Kel-Tec CNC Industries Inc. ...
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The Kel-Tec P-32 is a compact self-loading, or semi-automatic, locked-breech pistol that is extremely popular as a deep concealment weapon among civilians licensed to carry concealed firearms in the US. [1] It is believed to have been designed almost entirely by George Kelgren, the innovative...
After the Second World War, the trend uniformly seen has been for self-loading, semi-automatic pistols to replace revolvers for military use, which they have largely done, although the transition has been slower among police and civilian use. Today, revolvers are mainly used for civilian self-defence, hunting, plinking, and target practice. Semi-automatic pistols, though, are becoming by far the most popular for deeply concealed carry by licensed civilians, for use as primary handguns for police and military use, for use as back-up guns for police use, and for use where the 5 or 6 shots of a revolver are judged to be an inadequate number of rounds. Plinking refers to informal target shooting done at non-traditional targets such as tin cans, glass bottles, and balloons filled with water. ...
Famous semiautomatic handguns The U.S. military, French military, and Italian military have each chosen variants of the Beretta 92. The British military and U.S. Navy SEALs have chosen the SIG P226. The Austrian, Finnish, and Norwegian military have chosen the Glock 17. The Beretta 92 (also Beretta 96 and Beretta 98) is a series of semi-automatic pistols designed and manufactured by Beretta of Italy. ...
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The Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft (SIG)-Sauer P226 is a full-sized, service type pistol originally chambered for 9 mm Luger. ...
The Glock 17 was the first pistol designed and manufactured by the Austrian company Glock. ...
On a worldwide basis, the Glock 17 and Glock 22 have become the most widely used semi-automatic pistols in law enforcement, although significant numbers of law enforcement organizations still use revolvers, especially in parts of the world where the need for carrying a large number of rounds is not considered necessary. The Glock 17 was the first pistol designed and manufactured by the Austrian company Glock. ...
GLOCK 22 in the new Olive Drab finish (with magazine) The GLOCK 22 is a pistol manufactured by GLOCK. It is a GLOCK 17 modified to fire the . ...
Popular examples:
- Beretta M1934 (.380 ACP)
- Beretta 92F/FS (9 mm Parabellum)
- Beretta 93R (9x19mm)
- Beretta 96 (.40 S&W)
- Browning Hi-Power (9 mm Parabellum & .40 S&W)
- Borchardt C-93 (7.65 mm Borchardt)
- Browning M1900 (.32 ACP, 7.65 mm Browning)
- Browning U.S. M1911 & M1911A1 (.45 ACP, .38 Super, 9mm, plus many other custom calibers)
- Colt Model 1900 (.38 ACP)
- Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless (.32 ACP)
- Česká zbrojovka CZ 75 (9 mm Parabellum, .40 S&W)
- Glock 17 (9 mm Parabellum)
- Glock 22 (.40 S&W)
- Grandpower K100 (9x19mm)
- HK USP (9 mm Para, .40 S&W, .45 ACP, .357 SIG)
- TEC-DC9 (9 mm Parabellum)
- [[IMI Desert Eagle (44 Magnum, 50AE, 45ACP)
- Jericho 941 (9 mm Parabellum)
- Kel-Tec P11 (9 mm Parabellum)
- Kel-Tec P-32 (.32 ACP, 7.65 mm Browning)
- Luger Pistole 08 (9 mm Parabellum, 7.65 mm Luger)
- Magnum Research Desert Eagle (.357, .41, and .44 Magnum, .50 AE)
- Makarov (9 mm Makarov)
- Raven Arms MP-25 (.25 ACP)
- SIG-Sauer P226 (9 mm Parabellum, .40 S&W, .357 SIG)
- SIG-Sauer P210 (9 mm Parabellum, 7.65 mm Parabellum)
- Smith & Wesson Model 1006 (10 mm auto)
- Smith & Wesson Model 39 (9 mm Parabellum)
- Smith & Wesson Model 457 (.45 ACP)
- Smith & Wesson Model 59 (9 mm Parabellum)
- Smith & Wesson Model 5906 (9 mm Parabellum)
- Steyr Mannlicher (7.63 mm Mannlicher)
- Tokarev (7.63 mm Russian)
- Vis (9 mm Parabellum)
- Walther PPK (.32 ACP, .380 ACP)
- Walther P99 (9 mm Parabellum, .40 S&W)
The Beretta model 1934 is a compact, semi-automatic (or self-loading) pistol which was issued as a standard service firearm to the Italian armed forces beginning in 1934. ...
The Beretta 92SB-F (later renamed Beretta 92F), Beretta 92FS, Beretta 92G, and Beretta 92FS Inox are a series of semi-automatic, locked-breech delayed recoil operated, double/single action pistols, chambered for the 9 mm Parabellum cartridge, designed and manufactured by Beretta. ...
Beretta Model 93R is a selective-fire machine pistol. ...
The Beretta 92SB-F, Beretta 92FS, Beretta 92G, Beretta 92FS Inox, and Beretta 96 are semi-automatic pistols, locked-breech delayed recoil operated, double/single action pistols, chambered for the 9 mm Parabellum cartridge (92 series) and the . ...
Browning Hi-Power The Browning Hi-Power is based on a semi-automatic 9 mm pistol conceived and patented in the United States in 1922 by American firearms inventor John Browning, who eventually took his ideas to Belgium and the arms manufacturer Fabrique Nationale de Herstal. ...
Borchardt C-93 Borchardt C-93 in its holster The Borchardt C-93 pistol was designed by Hugo Borchardt in 1893. ...
John Moses Browning (January 21, 1855 – November 26, 1926), born in Ogden, Utah, was an American firearms designer who developed myriad varieties of weapons, cartridges, and gun mechanics, many of which are used in the U.S. military and elsewhere to this day. ...
The FN Browning M1900 is a single action, semi-automatic handgun designed ca. ...
Look up Browning and browning in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
The M1911 is a single-action, semiautomatic handgun chambered for the . ...
Rampant Colt - The original logo of Colts Firearms Colts Manufacturing Company was founded in Hartford, Connecticut in 1847 by Samuel Colt in order to produce revolvers, which Colt held the patent on, during the Mexican-American War. ...
Colt Model 1900 Photo by Adam Guns The Colt Model 1900 was a self-loading semi-automatic . ...
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Rampant Colt - The original logo of Colts Firearms Colts Manufacturing Company was founded in Hartford, Connecticut in 1847 by Samuel Colt in order to produce revolvers, which Colt held the patent on, during the Mexican-American War. ...
Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless The Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless is . ...
CZUB logo on ČZ 75B grips Česká zbrojovka a. ...
The CZ-75 is a semi-automatic handgun introduced in 1975 by Česká zbrojovka in caliber 9mm Parabellum. ...
The Glock 17 was the first pistol designed and manufactured by the Austrian company Glock. ...
GLOCK 22 in the new Olive Drab finish (with magazine) The GLOCK 22 is a pistol manufactured by GLOCK. It is a GLOCK 17 modified to fire the . ...
Excellent features of the gun are the result of unique design of the locking system which is based on locking by rotating barrel guided by crosswise pin. ...
USP family The Heckler und Koch USP (German universelle selbstladende Pistole, universal self-loading pistol) is a pistol designed by the German arms manufacturer Heckler und Koch. ...
The Intratec TEC-9 is a blowback-operated, semi-automatic 9mm Parabellum caliber firearm, classified by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms as a handgun. ...
The Jericho 941 is a double action, high capacity pistol developed by Israeli Military Industries, and introduced in 1990. ...
The Kel-Tec P11 is a compact self-loading, or semi-automatic, locked-breech pistol chambered for 9mm Luger ammunition that is popular as a concealed weapon among civilians licensed to carry concealed firearms in the US. It is believed to have been designed almost entirely by George Kelgren, the...
The Kel-Tec P-32 is a compact self-loading, or semi-automatic, locked-breech pistol that is extremely popular as a deep concealment weapon among civilians licensed to carry concealed firearms in the US. [1] It is believed to have been designed almost entirely by George Kelgren, the innovative...
The Parabellum-Pistole (Pistol Parabellum), popularly known as the Luger pistol is a semi-automatic self-loading pistol patented by Georg Luger in 1898 and manufactured by Deutsche Waffen- und Munitionsfabriken (DWM) starting in 1900. ...
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The Desert Eagle is a large calibre gas-operated semi-automatic pistol manufactured in Israel by IMI (Israel Military Industries) for Magnum Research, Inc. ...
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History Made in the City of Industry, California, this little handgun has been widely touted as the best little handgun ever made. ...
SIGARMS is the US representative of Swiss manufacturing firm Swiss Arms AG, which was split off of Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft (SIG) in 2000. ...
The Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft (SIG)-Sauer P226 is a full-sized, service type pistol originally chambered for 9 mm Luger. ...
SIGARMS is the US representative of Swiss manufacturing firm Swiss Arms AG, which was split off of Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft (SIG) in 2000. ...
Swiss Army SIG P210 Pistol. ...
The Smith and Wesson model 1006 is a recoil operated double-action semi-automatic handgun chambered in the powerful 10 mm auto cartridge. ...
The Smith and Wesson Model 39 was developed for the US Army service pistol trials of 1949. ...
The Smith & Wesson Model 59 was a modification of the S&W Model 39 pistol that had a double-column magazine. ...
The Smith & Wesson 5906 is a third-generation pistol manufactured starting in 1990 by Smith & Wesson. ...
M1901 Mannlicher Self-Loading, Semi-Automatic Pistol // General features This pistol is one of the most simple of blow-back semi-automatic pistols ever designed. ...
Tula Tokarev model 1933 Nationality Soviet Union Type Semi-automatic pistol Inventor Fedor Tokarev Date of design 1930 (TT-30) Service duration 1930 - 1951 Cartridge 7. ...
Vis (Polish designation , German designation 9 mm Pistole 35(p), often simply called the Radom in English sources) is a 9 mm caliber, single-action, semi-automatic pistol. ...
The Walther PP series pistols include the Walther PP, PPK, and PPK/S. They are blowback-operated semiautomatic pistols manufactured by Carl Walther GmbH Sportwaffen in Germany or under license from Walther in France and the United States [1]. These pistols feature an exposed hammer, a double-action trigger mechanism...
The Walther P99 is a semiautomatic pistol made in Germany by Walther Sportwaffen. ...
See also rEVOLVEr (2004) is the fourth studio album release by Swedish thrash metal band The Haunted. ...
The MP5, a famous submachine gun, sees widespread use amongst those that can afford it. ...
A machine pistol shares several properties of the semi-automatic handgun and the sub-machine gun. ...
A semi-automatic rifle is a type of rifle that fires a single bullet each time the trigger is pulled, without the need to manually operate a bolt, lever or other firing or loading mechanism. ...
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